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Easy Affogato

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Easy Affogato

Vanilla ice cream drowned in hot espresso — Italy's simplest dessert, and one of the best. Pour the espresso at the table, right before eating, so the contrast between hot coffee and cold ice cream is still there when you dig in.

Total time
5 min
Prep
5 min
Cook
0 min
Difficulty
easy
Cuisine
Italian
vegetariangluten-freedessertquick

Ingredients

4 scoopsvanilla ice cream
4 shotshot espresso
to tastechocolate shavings

Instructions

1

Place a scoop of vanilla ice cream in each serving glass.

2

Pull the espresso shots just before serving so they are properly hot.

3

Pour each shot directly over the ice cream at the table.

4

Finish with a scattering of chocolate shavings and serve immediately while the contrast between hot and cold is still there.

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